oh my where do we start?
Our wonderful house owners (no sarcasm there- they are wonderful and our friends) informed us that we would need to find alternate housing. Due to the current real estate market dictating that they needed to sell their best investment which was sadly our home!
Despite the situation it put us in, and the initial shock of uprooting, I quite quickly came to terms with the reality and started hunting for houses - our future home.
We looked for 3 weeks, viewing and previewing more than 100 homes some of which were less than appealing! Others that were lovely or had character flaws i.e. close to main roads, no backyards, or just plain tiny.
Eventually we found a street of new (argh) yes new! houses and we looked through 5 or 6 before coming upon the BEST house in the street (to the chagrin of our new neighbours who got the house but missed out due to the owners paperwork messing up or something).
Maybe at this point I need to point out, that despite my virgo love of order and function, I have never been very fond of the idea of a new home as once you move in any "indisgressions" in the building i.e. crayons, dings, fingermarks, red cordial etc. become your problem or in this case, our problem. Despite this "issue" I have with new homes, this house had everything (well bar 1 option- gas stove) that we wanted in a family home.
Honestly, it is obscene, for the same price as a little renovated cottage in our previous area, we now have, a 4 brm plus study. With double car garage, huge yard, loungeroom, dining room, modern kitchen, 2 bathrooms (one is an ensuite) walk in robe, pantry, laundry and umm, oh yes, side access!
